Litscea.] cxxvin. LAURINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 165 



long-petioled pale elliptic-ovate or lanceolate acuminate, nerves 5-7 pair 

 strong beneath with cross-nervules and conspicuous reticulations, male 

 umbels 4-5 fld. solitary stoutly pedicelled, bracts 5-6, perianth -tube tomen- 

 tose, fruit oblong seated on the thickened cupular or truncate Very shortly 

 pedicelled perianth-tube. T. calophylla, Eurz in Journ. As. Soc Sena 

 1873, ii. 102. 



TENASSERIM and MARTABAN ; in the drier hill forests, alt. 4-6000 ft., Kurz. 



A tree, 25-35 ft. ; branches rather stout, pale. Leaves in the male plant 3|- 

 4^ in., almost ovate, in the fern. 8 in. and elliptic-lanceolate and caudate-acuminate, 

 above yellow green when dry with impressed nerves, beneath grey or pale rusty-brown 

 and shortly tomentose ; petiole -1 in. Male umbel apparently always solitary, 

 female shortly racemose (umbels sometimes in short corymbose peduncled racemes, 

 Kurz); bracts broad, concave, coriaceous; flowers sessile. Sepals membranous, 

 oblong, obtuse. Stamens 9, glabrous, 3 inner 2-glandular. Fruit % in. loug, perianth- 

 cup in. broad, and with the pedicel about as long. The foliage resembles Lindere 

 bifaria. 



26. Xi. semecarpifolia, Wall. Cat. 6345 B (Tetranthera ?) ; branchlets 

 petioles leaves beneath and umbels tomentose or pubescent, leaves 6-7 in. 

 alternate penninerved rigidly coriaceous obovate or obovate- or elliptic- 

 oblong obtuse or subacute, beneath pale brown with 6-10 pairs of strong 

 nerves and transverse nervules, umbels 6-fld. clustered subracemosely on 

 a short stout peduncle, flowers large in. diam., fruit depressed globose 

 seated on the large entire puberulous turbinately cup-shaped shortly thickly 

 pedicelled perianth-tube. Tetranthera semecarpifolia, Wall. ; Nees Syst. 

 Laurin. 559 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 303 ; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 198. 



EAST BENGAL, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4284). BURMA, Wallich, Griffith. MAE- 

 TABAN, Kurz. DISTEIB. Muniiipore. 



A tree, 25-30 ft. (Kurz); brauchlets tawny-pubescent. Leaves 2^-5 in. broad, 

 above green or brown smooth with impressed nerves, beneath grey brown or purplish. 

 Umbels tomentose, about J in. broad in flower; bracts 4 (perhaps more) ; male flowers 

 about 6, sessile, in. diam. when open. Sepals free to the base, linear-oblong, pubescent 

 without and within, very unequal. Stamens about 8, very unequal, pubescent. Ovary 

 (in the male) 0, or with a stout style and decurved discoid stigma. Fem.fl. smaller, 

 with a thick funnel-shaped calyx-tube and very small lobes. Fruit f in. diam., 

 perianth-tube as broad, very thick, quite entire, with the very stout pedicel | in. long. 

 Under L. polyantha it is stated that Wallich's 6345 A is probably that plant. 



27. L. elongata, Wall. Cat. 2546 (Tetranthera); branchlets and 

 leaves beneath ru sty-torn entose, leaves alternate penninerved oblong or 

 elliptic-lanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate, nerves 5-20 pair strong beneath 

 with strong cross-nervules and conspicuous reticulations, umbels 4-5-fld. 

 usually solitary peduncled, bracts coriaceous very unequal strongly ciliate, 

 fruit oblong seated on the thickened expanded usually lobed pedicelled 

 perianth-tube. Daphnidium ? elongatum, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii. 

 63, a'nd Syst. Laurin. 620; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 231. Tetranthera 

 sikkimensis, Meissn. 1. c. 181, in part. 



TEMPEEATE and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; Garwhal, King ; Nepal, Wallich\ 

 Sikkim alt. 6-8000 ft., J. D. H., &c. Bhotan, Griffith. KHASIA MTS., alt. 5-6000 ft., 

 Griffith, &c. 



A bush or small tree, branches rather stout. Leaves exceedingly variable, rarely 

 obovate or oblanceolate, longest 9 by 2 in. and caudate-acuminate, average 4-5 by 

 1-1 1, broadest 8 by 3 in. with rounded or subacute tips, base acute, rarely obtuse or 

 rounded; petiole stout, - in. Umbels very rarely clustered ; males J-f in. diam. 

 in flower, fern, smaller; pedicel |-1 in., stout or slender; flowers silkily villous. 

 Sepals 4-6, membranous, oblong, obtuse. Stamens 8-12, filaments villous with long 



